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Chinanews client, Beijing, July 27th (Reporter Xing Rui) In this Tokyo Olympic Games women's weightlifting of 87 kg and above, there will be a transgender athlete-Lauder Hubbard from New Zealand.
This is the first time in the history of the Olympic Games that transgender athletes have participated in the competition.
If nothing else, Lauder Hubbard will play in the game on August 2.
It is worth mentioning that Chinese player Li Wenwen will also participate in this level of competition.
"Transgender" refers to an individual whose gender identity is different from their natural biological sex at birth.
In fact, Hubbard was a male before 2013, but he chose to change his gender at the age of 35.
According to Reuters, the IOC's updated entry guidelines in 2015 showed that transgender athletes can participate in women's events after their male hormones meet certain requirements.
It is precisely with this provision that Hubbard has the opportunity to participate in the Tokyo Olympics.
After Hubbard qualified for the Olympics, he caused huge controversy in the world weightlifting circle, with supporters and opponents holding different opinions.
It should be pointed out that Hubbard had participated in the men's weightlifting competition before changing his gender.
According to the "Daily Mail" report, Hubbard began to practice weightlifting when he was a teenager, and has also won the 99kg category at the New Zealand Junior National Championships over 16 years old.
But for unknown reasons, he has given up weightlifting since 2001.
Hubbard profile.
Screenshot of the official website of the Tokyo Olympics.
Opponents believe that allowing Hubbard to participate in the women's competition completely ignores her previous advantages as a male in terms of speed, height, endurance and strength, which is completely unfair to female athletes.
In addition, Hubbard also accounted for other outstanding female athletes.
Foreign media also pointed out that judging from his youth weightlifting performance, he is not enough to enter the men's national team.
Many professional weightlifters also criticized this.
Among them, the Belgian player Anna Vanbellinghen (Anna Vanbellinghen) said that if Hubbard participates in the Olympics, "it would be a joke."
But some supporters believe that Hubbard's participation is in compliance with the rules.
The President of the International Olympic Committee Bach once stated that the International Weightlifting Federation had formulated the qualifying rules before the start of the Olympic qualifying games, and in the continuous qualifying system, the rules cannot be changed.
Earlier, more than 20,000 people in Australia signed a petition calling for changes to the rules for transgender athletes.
Bach also promised to review the current regulations governing the participation of transgender people in the future.
Hubbard rarely responded to the voices in the online world.
In an interview with a New Zealand media in 2017, she said: "It is not my goal to change people's minds. I hope they support me, but I can't let them do this."
Hubbard will compete with Li Wenwen.
Screenshot of the official website of the Tokyo Olympics.
No matter what the outside world thinks about Hubbard, she has already determined to appear in the Tokyo Olympics.
In fact, since 2017, Lauder Hubbard began to participate in the women's competition, and in that year won two silver medals in the category of more than 90 kg.
In the World Cup held in Rome last year, she won another gold medal in the 87 kg category.
According to her past performance, Hubbard undoubtedly has the advantage of winning the medal in the big-level weightlifting competitions of the Olympics.
However, she is 43 years old this year, while Chinese teenager Li Wenwen was born in 2000 and is only 21 years old this year.
At present, the world records of women's snatch (148 kg), clean and jerk (187 kg) and total score (335 kg) above 87 kg are held by Li Wenwen.
The Tokyo Olympic Games is still very interesting.
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